Re: cross-compiling with different bitness

From: Mike Pall <mike-1207@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:21:47 +0200

François Perrad wrote:
> but it fails with i386 as host & x86_64 as target
> (the package gcc-multilib (lib64) is installed)
> 
> $ make HOST_CC="gcc -m64" CROSS="x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc-"

Errm ... an x86 kernel cannot execute x64 binaries.

And, yes, you need to be able to run a 64 bit binary to build for
a 64 bit target.

--Mike

Follow-Ups:
- Re: cross-compiling with different bitness
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References:
- cross-compiling with different bitness
  - From: François Perrad

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